the libyan government says no. from the opposition saying it would take its soldiers out the cities where this uprising unpoliced clear in the capital city of tripoli joining in a few moments i'll bring you more. meantime also in the program a russian cartoonist causes a stir on the internet with his take on the events in libya and across the middle east. and the russia close travels for ron's closed region now revamped as a major tourist destination offering a break from bustling city life in the new romantic.

hello this is our table coasting around the globe from moscow welcome if you just joined us this hour it's nine pm moscow time the top story from us nato says it's investigating reports of at least thirteen libyan rebels killed in a coalition air strike some sources suggest that the strike came after a pro good half a fighter joined the group and opened fire at allied planes meanwhile the country's governments rejected rebel calls for a cease fire paula slee has got the latest for you from tripoli. spokesperson here in tripoli said it would be mad to expect libyan soldiers to withdraw from cities where there was still fighting and this is almost ironic because it wasn't so long ago that tripoli itself made to cease fire offers and at that time the rebels said that these offers were insincere and could not be trusted so certainly a lot of mistrust between both sides neither willing to be the first to lay down

arms but on the diplomatic front a slightly different picture is emerging we are hearing on the country from a prime minister mr. baby that the lines of communication has been opened and that they're hoping to intensify them they say that they are talking with the british the french and the americans to reach some kind of mutual settlement that would see the stopping of killings of civilians now we are hearing the same line coming out of london it has confirmed that in recent weeks it has been meeting in private with several high ranking libyan officials we know that just on wednesday mohammed ismail who is a trusted aide of gadhafi son was in london he was trying to organize what we understand some kind of exit strategy for the gadhafi family that landed insisting that any kind of deal any kind of settlement plan would have to include khadafi consult stepping down we're hearing from doctors on the frontline in some of the most recent nato airstrikes at least seven civilians were killed they were all

children three of them were girls from the same family you know what we've been told in what was the incidence nato airstrike hit an ammunitions alawi and the explosions caused two nearby houses to collapse and some of those injuries coming from that overnight friday we're also hearing disturbing reports coming from the western city of misrata residents saying that the government and soldiers there have intensified their surely that it is very random and that a lot of people are dying here in tripoli the airstrikes have continued overnight there were missiles that were fired in the east and south reste of the city some of the. landing in get at his compound at his ear according to eyewitnesses there they were my peers on the boarding and it was blood on the ground the fighting in the frontline into the ground the town of gregor we are hearing that the rebels are psyche based organize that they are now stopping the inexperienced young fighters who showed themselves to flee in the face of chaos from actually reaching the

frontline we are also being told that they have new communication instruments with them in the form of satellite phones in the form of radios these have no doubt provided try the international community we're also being told that the devils have water and some new equipment so that they are stepping up the fight on the ground we're hearing from the european union that if asked is ready to send a humanitarian mission it will essentially hold a not a military operation that will provide humanitarian assistance in a series of hoping to evacuate displaced people and also provide assistance to humanitarian organizations working here. a war correspondent there let's go live to chicago sure we did talk to rick ross of he's a blogger an antiwar activist. in libya we're looking at civilian deaths rebels killed reports of cia on the grow a little last time you saw work clothes on our it was afghanistan a decade on the still there is libya going to play out of exactly the same way do you think. you know that's hard to say but i think it's no word of the. very

recently u.s. admiral james stepped read as soon as a supreme allied commander for nato and in europe and additionally of course was the commander european command for the pentagon you know remark rather euphemistically the business of first end of nato has been engaged in two major operations simultaneously for operations sort of substitute the correct word wars and in fact the nato the so-called north atlantic military alliance is in fact waging two words one on the continent of africa and one in asia so i mean there are there are certain power parallels of course with the beginning stages of the invasion and military operations in afghanistan in october of two thousand and one i think there are also astonishing parallels with all the united states and nato you know conduct of the war against yugoslavia nineteen ninety nine your report

a little while ago mentioned you know sophisticated satellite telephone communication. more advanced weaponry and so forth you know falling into the hands or beings of light to insurgent forces and libya and that's you know fully comparable to what the united states and nato did with the so-called cost of the liberation army in the serbian province of possible in one nine hundred ninety nine it looks like the the handbook for military aggression and intervention that the united states and nato have recourse to has very limited options and they tend to replay the same scenarios repeated they want to ask about another angle here we keep hearing that britain is saying it seemed to work for the libyan government over a possible exit strategy for gadhafi something that companies and i have known anyway what is the real story is that you think i would say sions going on behind the scenes. you know i really have no access to go back or to our communications and as we know you know a lot of these reports frequently are either trial balloons or they're distant from

asian i sincerely have no way of knowing what i do know is this today as you know the fifteenth day of the word against libya that is it's not going to be getting it it's third week it's the commander of the war it's been passed on from u.s. africa command africa. with the so-called joint task force operation odyssey dawn to the treaty organization which as i mentioned a moment ago citing admiral step redus it's now the second ongoing war far outside the euro atlantic area being hard to beat it was trying to say here i guess rick is do you think i know he says he won't go in some a very last but do you think there is any chance the gadhafi will stay and then that something can be arranged so he can leave you know if he does and if he does under the pressure of you know several hundred air sorties flown against his country and several hundred tomahawk cruise missiles fired from u.s. and british guided missile destroyers and nuclear submarines in the mediterranean

sea it's no great victory for anyone it simply establishes that when the u.s. and its nato allies apply overwhelming military force against a targeted nation and a government that they can succeed you know one market off the a side because i really don't believe that is the issue i believe the issue is that you know the western powers reserved to themselves the exclusive prerogative of a regime or whenever wherever and under whichever pretext they choose suso this is what the world can you so briefly reckon we close and tonight to the prospect of coalition troops on the the ground. well you know as well as i do that there's been not only speculation has been verification new york times recently for example amongst other sources documented you know u.s. cia and british air my six special forces intelligence officers you know around you know much as they were though it was an acknowledged then also you know ninety ninety nine and possible and of course as you alluded to have to understand with

the northern alliance in the opening days of the war in two thousand and one this is again a typical modus operandi. it's in direct violation of u.n. resolution one thousand and seventy three which states or could be no occupation force and you know strongly implies there should not be ground forces. you know in libya those ground forces are the united states and its allies you know we should also note the three major nato countries waging the war against libya are the united states france and britain which are nuclear weapons so these people you know carry some weight and interviews are always are doing now on my. rolls of it i'm probably going to leave it there we're out of time but just wanted to thank you for taking the time is something to give us your thoughts about what you think is going on there are going antiwar activists from chicago as you well i think you think you've got. to get more idea of what's happening on the ground in libya check out point to slee is blog on our website you saw it reporting from tripoli just real

but earlier never latest post she describes how the libyan woman burst into a foreign journalist hotel saying she'd been raped by fifteen of the from a she's got more on that story because. we all saw it she's got more on it at our own possible straight to our own blog section for more on everything that's going on there in libya. as the world's attention focused on libya the events of inspired some vicious debate and satirical jabs a russian cartoonist has created an animated picture of the north african unrest which became an internet hits. port ny i went to meet him. a cartoon parody starring. birds and r t

possibly the best and shortest explanation summarizing the uprisings in tunisia egypt and libya. three big pigs was created by russian illustrator igor's who are twenty six year old motivated by technology and politics wanted to do. i wanted to do yeah. i just looked. for birds one of my favorite games that. i thought. play. and i thought. my sharp those things in this three little pigs remake libyan strongman moammar gadhafi and the ousted leaders of tunisia and egypt take the form of green pigs hiding in houses angry bird protesters smashed denali and rebar but with libya.

his so-called freedom fighters achieve victory with the support of an american eagle wearing a french half. in less than five days this fire clip has created a global bars and garnered nearly one million hits on you tube says he will likely make a second video and has already been approached about turning his cartoon into a game colorful metaphors and imagery illustrating the story of revolutions as the world waits to see how the real and game plays out marina fortner r.t. . so i had the recipes for economic recovery. what i do i actually draw a line. between the two. corporations and government which right now their line is very blurry. resident show hits the streets of the big apple to find out what

people there think might save the global economy from the blow. plus an inside look at the assembly side of the soyuz spacecraft where we witnessed final preparations for the launch party the fiftieth anniversary of man's first flight and for straights. conductors attack on civilians has prompted condemnation and an immediate response from the international community but while the outcry on libya is allowed other conflicts and failed to draw such a reaction i thought he's got a chance you can report next this is held some leaders to escape punishment for their crimes. the only warm welcome and firm handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south dealing with one of the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent english is a welcome guest on american t.v. shows where he's never asked the question why in the middle of the night on august

the seventh of two thousand and eight a george would begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of dark and the peaceful palace. region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. as nearly lost his daughter in secretary bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the counties south of said here i believe scottish really should be removed from office i think you should be tried in international court for rule crimes but when it comes to me sounds like a stream even though the e.u. finding mission determined that he started the war in two thousand and eight and ordered the bloodbath in south the safety of the georgian president is still supported in the west they have no strategic interest in. supporting his overthrow the notion that decisions get made on the basis of humanitarian concerns is simply

false it doesn't it's not the basis for the decision about libya it's not the basis for decisions about georgia about palestine about kosovo the question of who is held responsible and how is very much a strategic question it's not a legal question as it should be to boost its strategic importance among other things georgia has dispatched one thousand troops to join allied forces in afghanistan and became the leading troop contributor relative to georgia's overall population soundless and as this fox news interview. shows almost unstoppable praise of the u.s. is also believed to have played a role in the west supporting saakashvili no matter what his clients america's like because they stumbled in the merger of archer and moore was really rough it moved through got through the elders of history as a for a graduation the bastard senior now as the world has declared a no fly zone over libya to stop gadhafi many wonder why

a no fly zone was never on the table when the georgian president launched his dad the campaign or when israel bombed the gas it was three weeks in a row on the question for example of gaza where you had a blatant act of aggression clearly a violent massive violation of not only international human rights norms but were crimes crimes against humanity being created fourteen hundred people killed of whom or the nine hundred were civilians more than three hundred were children it was a horrific situation that went on for days the problem there is that israel is the protector protectorate of the united states and the u.s. is not going to allow any united nations or anyone else to actually engage in a serious way in stopping that massacre you would think if a leader commits atrocities he would be pretty likely to get i think denounced then

come travel but it's pretty close that's not the way politics works the georgian president killed scores of civilians but was exonerated by the west politicians accept him as a friend business leaders are looking to invest in his country and it seems the grass is happy to continue turning a blind eye to the blood of these heads i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . in rest of the middle east on the crisis in japan have raised the volatility on global markets causing fear of further global economic crisis some of the dollar sinking against other currencies the resident show story of the streets of new york to find out what people better think needs to be done to fix the world's financial order. billionaire investor george soros is holding a conference to be attended by the world's richest and hence most influential people the agenda to reform the global monetary system how do you fix the world's economy this week let's talk about that when i do. actually draw

a line between the two corporations and government which right now their line is very blurry most important economic trade which is triple bottom line which means you look at what's best for not only the businesses. for the employees involved businesses but society as well as a lot of people feeling like it's time for the dollar to step down because there's always been animosity against the u.s. by because we're the best i just got back from italy and i got crushed by the. you know thirty percent of the dollars losing weight no matter what we think well look i remember back when i used to go through a sixty yen to the dollar and i would say. maybe a hundred a. time for a global monetary system now you can now you're a socialist i think about that right no matter what you or i think should be done to improve the global economy the bottom line is those decisions will always be

made by those with the most money for better or worse. preparations for the takeover so you spacecraft are in full swing at baikonur cosmodrome with a rocket now installed on the launch pad on tuesday or blast off celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of humankind's first journey to the stars. as the launch site she's got some fresh first time impressions to cosmonaut just back from orbit. the we're here at the a launch pad that i can our program we're actually talking right now. they're moving the rocket to the expedition twenty seven cars on the position to the particle position feeling very interested to see this whole process will show you the watching what's going on right now is analysis astronautical scott and she actually just landed from the international space station lisa goes this is the first time looking at this process particularly what do you think about it i think

it's it's pretty impressive it's really neat to see. how differently to the rockets were to to space shuttle as it were going on in the end but very different very different to the space shuttle and what we do but looking forward to watching my friend ron karen load up in a couple days to go back to space having been there before i had you know an idea of what i was going to be looking forward to and everything and the space station such a wonderful huge volume in space the largest volume ever had in history and space. now to be able to look out oh we were talking earlier this couple of window this kind of. a window that looks down to the earth it just. it really it's a very emotional thing to i think that. you know you see your own planet from space you're experiencing floating around in microgravity and to exhibit work there and then and working as international partners to you know what you think about living

in space you're in do you honestly ship the ear very protected q. you have to be because we as humans can and can't live on our own album in the vacuum of space and very similar to what it's like living on the water you're under pressure you can't just you know help if you were without special equipment so for the most part you know the entire time you're there you're thinking about things like you know what do i need to do to protect myself in this given environment and fortunately the space station and the various habitat water are very comical places to be. and make up is what is without. either it should be for a grief or your view of the planet to make everybody think you're mad and so i think you nicole you all there you have it or a lot of action are cosmonauts and astronauts here right now watching this great process coming here especially because immediately important dates happen to fifty a controversy of you guys first flight and the thirtieth anniversary of justice first space shuttle flights so again everyone here very excited seeing all this up close it was pretty good for sure at this rate i'll go

a bit chilly at the moment so we are expecting to see more of the families of the astronauts coming here and event the little boy from french guiana who had to sign to detach the crew of expedition twenty seven today i assess. a lot more coverage coming up for us. there you can keep track of the latest on his trip into orbit including a big launch there on our web site as well we've got a special space some of those reception celebrating fifty years since your garden's historic flight that interests you go take a look it's got more news features and images for you there including these rest saying they choose. as you've never seen the full real high resolution stuff on our website captured by a russian satellite. t.v. . first. and. it

would be brief now tonight and workers that stricken fukushima nuclear power plant the pathing the city going to react say that's leaking radioactive water contaminated seawater near the facility showing radiated radiation levels four thousand times the legal limit meantime japan's prime minister has visited the tsunami ravaged villages in the northeast of the country for the first time. nine people have been killed in the afghans have you can. tests over the burning of the qur'an by a pastor in the u.s. dozens more injured on friday a similar protest in the afghan city of mazar e sharif led to the deaths of seven workers at the local u.n. office. gunfire explosions have been at the presidential palace not every coast main city of abidjan is the country's struggle for power he looks out at least eight hundred people have been reported killed in the violence in the city to play in the street fighters backed by backing the un recognized leader rather son of

what tyra pressing the offensive against the incumbent president has said seems to keep all the country's capital. change of tone we continue our russia close observer isn't this time all teams looking for a perfect bank to get away. stacey three of our trip to chile have been screeching to the your rules there is of a market some seven hundred kilometers east of moscow it's a major industrial heartland it was closed off indeed to foreigners as recently as the one nine hundred ninety s. but these days its picturesque mountains are welcoming everyone as artie's ridiculous that. when the soviet union broke up businessmen in shenanigans so an opportunity to turn this once closed off region into a major tourist destination after all

a good look around shows the southern you have much to offer at the australians called with the children it was always perceived as a metallurgical regional of course it remains so to this day but many people see that there's more to life than ironworks and places such as this one start to attract thousands of people. i lead is a businessman who on a whim invested most of his capital into building resorts near the top national park the russians generally prefer to hit the slopes in europe i legs wrote in says the number of visitors to fizzle resort grows every season with used to work but you go to the alps and you love it but you come back again because it's home and it's just two hours from moscow by claim. not to mention the fact that you can get away with this at a lot of ski resorts in europe snowboarding stressfully it's just part of the skaters and which draws young and old alike to the tree out in sweden thank you. in places like this you really do relax you get away from the fast of

a large city which is totally unnecessary and it's all about resting your mind and body. the landscape in this part of the euro is not means actually goes a long way towards helping the mind unwind of course there are plenty of borders ways in the world that have. no but if you want a true russian winter fairy tale and to go national park is definitely the place for you here when there's another leg the head of the night travel and the owner of the hiking camps in the national parks grounds from the world through the door we began building our first thoughts eight years ago literally pulling all the waste we carried all the building materials on our backs but even if you use transportation it's still difficult to get all that to our campsites but thousands of tourists every year do manage it because the region previously known as versions deep and strong hold has too much to do nor when it comes to natural beauty and shrink will initially have been screeching in the middle is called aarti. a cover up in just a few minutes time story of sean sellers he was the only american to be sentenced

to death under the age of seventeen since capital punishment was reintroduced in the u.s. in his state of thirty years ago we've got his story coming up on this channel r.t. from moscow.

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